4. Why should our father’s name disappear from his clan because he had no son? Give us property among our father’s relatives.’
5. So Moses brought their case before the Lord,
6. and the Lord said to him,
7. ‘What Zelophehad’s daughters are saying is right. You must certainly give them property as an inheritance among their father’s relatives and give their father’s inheritance to them.
8. ‘Say to the Israelites, “If a man dies and leaves no son, give his inheritance to his daughter.
9. If he has no daughter, give his inheritance to his brothers.